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The funniest thing on the internet in 2013

A brilliant, hilariously perceptive breakdown of outrage eating itself on the internet.

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Even if you're exhausted by Buzzfeedspeak, the work of Tom Phillips, a British writer for the site and online impressionist par excellence, is essential. Essential.

His sublime "29 stages of a Twitterstorm" wins the Listener Funniest Thing on the Internet 2013 prize - a coveted award with no actual prize and whichI invented 30 seconds ago.

The post picks apart the way rage and meta-rage and all that unfurls itself online. An imagined online retailer is called out for promoting a "Black and White Minstrel Play Set" - and it all proceeds in very familiar and funny fashion.

In BuzzSpeak, if you only read one funny post this year, make it that one.